.NET Framework - Whats it do?

anyone? :blink:

The Microsoft .NET Framework is an environment for building, deploying, and running XML Web services and other applications. It consists of three main parts: the common language runtime, the Framework classes, and ASP.NET. A companion infrastructure, the Microsoft .NET Compact Framework, is a set of programming interfaces that enable developers to target mobile devices like smart phones and PDAs.

you know i had to upgrade my .NET crap the other day and now i have a new folder added to %path% C:\WINDOWS\System32\Wbem
and snooping around in there i see some sneakies in the log files =-(

icic, i installed with windows update but really had no idea what it was.

some apps need's .net to run on windows, dont remove it.

Yanicsoft's "WinXP Manager" is one of them. Not a clue in hell as to why it requires it though.

it's like java, dll's and vbrun, some programs use these librarys to run. otherwise they would be huge

I don't have .NET installed and I'm doing fine without it.